Llorcan Wyddel

Saint Llorcan Wyddel, that is the Irishman, is a saint honoured in Wales, at Llanllugan in Montgomeryshire. According to Baring-⁠Gould, Llugyrn, the old name of the church, is the Welsh form of the Irish name Lorcan.

He is, in the same author's view, the Llorcan Wyddel named in two sixteenth-⁠century manuscripts as the first of six persons said to have been raised from the dead by Saint Beuno, and called a Scot, that is an Irishman, in Beuno's Welsh Life. The legend says that at Gwyddelwern in Merionethshire Beuno raised an Irishman whose wife had caused his death, and built a church there. The book calls Llorcan a martyr but does not tell how he died; the church of Llanllugan is counted by Cynddelw among those of Tyssilio.